English Terms Flashcards
What is a Direct gaze and what is its effect on the person.
Direct gaze – when a person in the image is looking directly at the
lens of the camera and so are looking directly into the eyes of the
viewer. This gaze could be confronting or enticing.
What is a Indirect gaze and its effect?
Indirect gaze – when a person in the image is looking away at something else in the image or off the scene. This gaze invites the viewer to imagine what they are looking at and creates a type of
narrative in the image..
What is a high- angle shot and its effect
The camera looks down on the subject, lessening its impact by making it seem powerless, tense, desperate, weak or vulnerable. “
What is a eye-level shot and its effect?
The camera is at the same level as the subject, making the audience
part of the action.
What is a low-angle shot and its effect?
The camera looks up at the subject, making it appear large and
powerful
What is a close-up shot and its effect?
a close- up shot is when the subject’s face fills most of the image area, allowing the viewer to see the subject’s expression and emotions. It is used to create a
connection with the viewer”
What is a medium shot and its effect.
The subject is shown from the waist up and allows the viewer to see
the subject’s gestures as well as the setting .
What is a long shot and its effect
The subject’s entire body is shown in a setting that is important to the
action. A view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so
that people appear as indistinct shapes
What is saliency?
The feature in the image that grabs a viewer’s attention first.
What is vector lines?
Lines that are created within an image that draw the viewer’s eye.
These could be created by pointing fingers or arms, branches, lines of
text, horizon, etc.
What is foreground?
Part of scene or space around object that appears closest to camera.
What is colour saturation?
The intensity of the colours. A highly saturated image will have bright
and vivid colours, where as a low saturation image will have light
colours”
What is colour symbolism?
Colour is used as a symbol to help a viewer’s understanding of
characters, places, events, and ideas
What is proximity?
if objects or people are in close together, they are likely to be
perceived as part of a group or have a familiar relationship”
What is Rule of Thirds?
The rule of thirds is a compositional guideline that breaks an image
down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically). Placing a subject on
the intersectioning gridlines not only creates design appeal but creates
saliency for the subject (tension or interest).
